It was already evening when Yan Zhen returned to the Yuanzhou Pastoral Mansion.

The sun shines on the streets, stretching the shadows of pedestrians. Most of the merchants who were out doing business were ready to close their doors and rest, and Xiao Zhaohua had already left.

The Yuanzhou Pastoral Mansion needs to be renovated, but he thinks that it is better to leave this kind of thing to the Lord of Xiangjun to take care of, and he has no choice but to give the state government yamen more support for military supplies.

Yan Zhen climbed over the wall and entered the mansion and found Lin Yi and others. Not far from the three of them, there was a group of children staring at them with big eyes waiting to be fed.

"I brought them all here, where are you going to put them?" Xiao Xiaohua was in a good mood, thinking that she should be happy that these orphans no longer have to sleep on the streets.

"Ahem, whatever! As long as they don't disturb our cultivation, they can live wherever they want. Tomorrow I will entrust someone else to repair the governor's mansion. Yan Zhen scratched his head, he became an orphan, and he had to raise a group of orphans, which felt quite uncomfortable.

"Oh, then you live in the back garden, the spiritual spring is there, and it is also suitable for cultivation. The vestibule will decorate the façade for you, and we will live in the atrium, so how about that?" said Xiao Xiaohua with a smile.

Yan Zhen nodded, that's it. He bought this mansion mainly for that spiritual spring, and he really didn't care much about other things.

"Okay, give me 300,000 taels of silver, and tomorrow I will ask someone for you to rebuild the state governor's mansion. Xiao Yuhua stretched out his little white jade hand and asked for money.

"Are you reliable?" Yan Zhen said suspiciously.

"I'll at least look at feng shui! I can also set up a few protective arrays for this mansion. If someone invites me, I won't do it!" Xiao Yuhua pursed her lips, not angry.

"Oh, I'm still going to ask Lord Xiang for help, then I'll trouble you! I'm not good at doing these things anyway. Yan Zhen laughed, "Do you know where the spiritual spring is? I'm getting ready to go to retreat." ”

Xiao Xiaohua raised her eyebrows, "I'll take you there! I used to come here often to cultivate!"

"......" and a few people were speechless for a while, no wonder this little flower wanted to set up a stall with his back to the state pastor to sell food and sell news part-time, it turned out to be to cultivate here.

Xiao Zhaohua comforted the children and led the four of them through the twists and turns of the twelve corridors to the backyard.

The layout of the backyard is very simple, and it should be the place where the last state pastor practiced martial arts. There are all kinds of cultivation rooms, ordinary weapons, sandbags, wooden stakes, etc.

After Xiao Yuhua took the four of them into the backyard hall, he went straight to a square pool in the center of the hall.

The square pond is built of granite, and there is a shallow layer of spring water in it, but it is only three feet deep, exuding a faint aura, as if it is about to dry up, and it looks quite cold.

"This is Lingquan?" Yan Zhen was a little confused, this is funny, right? What is the use of this pool that doesn't even have a calf?

"Lingquan is absolutely right, but ...... Ahem!" Xiao Xiaohua stretched out her little hand to Yan Zhen again, "A hundred spirit stones, buy a message." ”

"Are you robbing?" Xiong Batian couldn't stand it anymore, and said with a black face.

Yang Xiaoxi also glared angrily, she dared to speak at such a sky-high price!

"Hmph, do you like to listen to it!" Xiao Yuhua turned her head and left, without any intention of staying.

"Say it!" Yan Zhen took out a hundred spirit stones, and his intuition told him that the news of the little flower was worth a hundred spirit stones. After all, they were in the same boat now, and there was no need for him to lie to everyone.

"Hehe, you're very happy, I like you very much! It's a pity that we have no fate!" Xiao Yuhua took the spirit stone from Yan Zhen's hand, then jumped off the spirit pool, came to the southeast corner to open a dark grid, took out a compass from it, and threw it to him casually, "The underground of this state pastoral mansion is a spirit stone vein, and the underground river will only produce a spirit spring when it flows through the ore vein, and what I give you is a device for regulating the spiritual energy of the spirit spring, called the spirit compass." In addition, I have to remind you that when the compass is facing due east, do not use the spirit pool. ”

Xiao Yuhua quieted down, pinched her little hand and counted her fingers, and continued, "In less than two years, there will be another war in Linzhou. When the time comes, this vein will also be affected. ”

"Since there are ore veins, why don't the forces of Linzhou dig them?" Yan Zhen wondered.

"For reasons left over from history, it can't be excavated. Xiao Yuhua climbed up to the spiritual pond and wrote lightly, "You should cultivate hard and prepare for the catastrophe! Don't ask too much, the secret of heaven must not be revealed." ”

Yan Zhen glanced at everyone, and his mood became a little heavy.

After a moment, he shook his head and didn't think about it anymore, "Everyone usually uses spirit stones as much as possible in training, and when the breakthrough is approaching or when no one in the pool uses it, you can enter as much as you like." I'm going to go in first to feel it, I'm going to rush through the level recently. ”

"Big brother, I'll guard the door for you!" Xiong Batian smiled innocently and pulled Yang Xiaoxi out of the hall.

Yan Zhen hesitated, entered the spirit pool with Lin Yi, and used the spirit compass to increase the concentration of spiritual energy, and the water level was gradually rising.

"I always think this place is unreliable!" Yan Zhen said to the half-drenched woman beside her.

"Well, it's good to have a magic weapon that swallows the spirit! swallow the aura directly, and you can carry it with you. Lin Yi sighed casually, closed his eyes and began to cultivate.

Yan Zhen felt that it made sense, he took out the magic weapon in the ring, shook it into the spirit pool together, and really found two pieces that could swallow the spirit.

One is the immortal stele he just bought not long ago, and after the immortal stele entered the spirit pool, it fell directly to the bottom of the pool, and like a vampire, he began to suck the cow and drink.

The other was a scroll, and when Yan Ji opened it, he saw that it was one of the family inheritances left by his father, named Yan Ling's Nest.

According to the scroll records, the swallow spirit nest is a cultivation method, gathering the aura of heaven and earth under the seat, and at the same time of cultivation, using the aura to build a swallow's nest. This spirit nest is equivalent to a spirit stone, which can be used directly.

After breaking through the Void Dan Realm and mastering the method of Condensing Dan, you can cultivate the Yan Spirit Nest. It can not only improve the efficiency of cultivation, but also store materials.

Yan Zhen saw this scroll, and he was also surprised, and his heart fluctuated. If you succeed in cultivating this Yan Spirit Nest, you won't have to worry about running around for spirit stones in the future. Even if you encounter the danger of depletion of spiritual power, you can also directly take out the spiritual nest to save the day. Because the Spirit Nest is condensed by itself, the absorption efficiency is twice as fast as that of Spirit Stones.

Lin Yi felt Yan Zhen's violent mood swings, and couldn't help frowning, and was about to scold two sentences, when he noticed Yan Zhen coming to her side and grabbed her slender arm.

She had a strange thought in her heart, her little face flushed, and she hurriedly said, "Don't be like this, it's not the time yet." ”

"Why isn't it time?" Yan Zhen pulled Lin Yi to his side and said happily, "Look, this is just right for you to cultivate!"

Lin Yi opened her autumn pupils, and her eyes were as tender as water, which was exciting. She looked at the scroll with a little confusion, only to realize that it was she who had just thought about it, and suddenly her slender neck flushed, and she felt very embarrassed.

"Ahem, you were originally my Taoist companion, what is there to be ashamed of. Yan Zhen's arm slid down, holding Lin Yi's soft twitch, she twitched twice angrily, half pushing and half on the spot no longer resisted.

"When we become immortals, we will form a small family. Yan Zhen smiled, and then let go of his hand.

Lin Yi shyly tapped the head of the mantis, picked up the scroll and walked to the corner of the spirit pool, trying to calm down the ups and downs of his mind, and began to comprehend.